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When Does a Private-to-Private Merger Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Most products out there suck so mom gets stuck with angst of wanting to have decorations, activities and chatzkies for other kids to take home. We also built two very high-quality mobile apps that we were experimenting with in terms of building better customer acquisition toools.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Thus, join the ranks of Yahoo, Google, Amazon, eBay, Cisco and Microsoft and focus your limited time and resources on perfecting your customer value proposition, not on devising an ideal company name. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL. Avoid Hyphens.

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Many Startups Stumble on International Cultures

Startup Professionals Musings

Respect local customs and practices. Watch your product naming. Product naming is always a major effort and mistakes can result in costly failures. Pundits in Latino countries quickly picked up on the name, ‘no va’ means ‘does not go’ in Spanish. Proceed with caution.

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International Cultures are Key Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. Respect local customs and practices. Watch your product naming. Product naming is always a major effort and mistakes can result in costly failures.

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An Interview with crowdspring Naming Creative, Shaunda Lindsay

crowdSPRING Blog

and in 100+ countries with professional custom logo design , web design, print design, product design, packaging design and naming companies and products. Shaunda is a six-year naming veteran on crowdspring, and boasts over 1,400 naming projects under her belt. Hi, My name is Shaunda Lindsay.

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Transcript of Why Local SEO is an Important Lead Generation Channel

Duct Tape Marketing

So if you’re, say, a custom home-builder, it would behoove you to have a number of pages, and even a variety of content, like maybe video, infographics, great articles, or key evergreen sort of positioning pieces on how you look at custom home-building, all in one little section of your website, for instance.